SIGGRAPH highlights

We're back from SIGGRAPH! What an inspiring, exhausting week. Here are some of the papers that really stood out, though this list is by no means complete:

1) Bokode - a clever replacement for big, ugly bar codes on packaging (image from bokode.com)


2) Dark flash - two orders of magnitude dimmer than a conventional flash
3) Gabor noise - procedural noise loaded with provably nice properties
4) All the motion synthesis papers. It's especially amazing how far physically-based animation has come.

You can get the complete list of Siggraph 2009 papers here: http://kesen.huang.googlepages.com/sig2009.html